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Earner's Crawfish Bisque

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Start the party early - enlist some friends to help you peel the crawfish for this worth-the-effort Louisiana bisque. Stuffed, baked crawfish heads make it fun!

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Ingredients

  • For Gravy:
  • 1 1 sack live crawfish (about 40 pounds)
  • 2 large 2 large onions
  • 4 4 ribs celery
  • 1/4 1/4 bell pepper
  • 4 cloves 4 cloves garlic
  • 10 sprigs 10 sprigs of parsley
  • 1 cup 1 cup cooking oil
  • 2 cups 2 cups flour (about)
  • 4 heaping teaspoons 4 heaping teaspoons tomato paste
  • 9 cups 9 cups hot water
  • 5 teaspoons 5 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons 2 teaspoons red pepper
  • 6 6 green onions
  • For Stuffing:
  • 2 large 2 large onions
  • 3 3 ribs celery
  • 1/4 1/4 bell pepper
  • 4 cloves 4 cloves garlic
  • 10 sprigs 10 sprigs parsley
  • 1/4 cup 1/4 cup cooking oil
  • 2 2 eggs, beaten
  • 2 cups 2 cups dry bread crumbs (or more)
  • 4 teaspoons 4 teaspoons salt
  • 2 teaspoons 2 teaspoons red pepper
  • Flour
  • 6 6 green onions

Details

Servings 24
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 370mins

Preparation

Step 1

To Prepare Crawfish:
Scald live crawfish in almost boiling water for about 15 minutes. Drain and cool.

Peel crawfish and save the meat and fat in separate bowls. Grind the crawfish. Set aside.

Clean about 200 heads to stuff. Set aside.

To Make Gravy:
Grind onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic and parsley. In a large heavy pot, heat oil; add flour to make a roux. Stir constantly until browned. Add ground vegetables. Cook on low fire about 30 minutes. Add tomato paste and crawfish fat. Cook about 30 minutes. Add hot water and let cook on low fire. Add 2 1/2 cups ground crawfish tails, salt, and pepper. Cook on high fire about 20 minutes.

To Make Stuffing for Heads:
Preheat oven to 400ºF.

Grind onions, celery, bell pepper, garlic, and parsley. Fry remaining crawfish tails and ground vegetables in hot cooking oil; cool. Add remaining crawfish fat and eggs. Mix in bread crumbs, salt, and red pepper. Stuff the crawfish heads. Dip the stuffed part of head in flour and place on cookie sheet. Bake 20 minutes.

Add baked crawfish heads to gravy. Cook on low fire about 1 hour. More hot water may be added if too thick. Stir carefully. Serve in soup bowls over rice. Garnish with green onions.

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